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IAM and TCU leaders continue to shine a much-needed light on two working family issues currently under attack: pensions and health care. Taking part in an action session at the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention in Los Angeles, entitled “Bankrupting Retirement: Retirement Security and Bankruptcy as an Employer Strategy,” IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., told fellow
Read moreLeft to right, Young Machinists Kevin Vazquez, George King, Rob Carver, Rachael Sarzynski, Andrew Dennis, Kenda McKinzey and Uly Ruiz joined other labor and progressive groups to protest Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s appearance at a conservative fundraiser in Seattle. IAM District 751 Young Machinists have made it clear: Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union rhetoric
Read moreThe National Mediation Board (NMB) held a “status conference” with IAM Districts 141 and 142 regarding the ongoing US Airways Mechanic and Related and Fleet Service contract negotiations. The NMB also met separately with the carrier. Amid the continuing uncertainty surrounding the American-US Airways merger, the purpose of the conference was to discuss outstanding issues
Read moreFifty years ago, less than a month after the 1963 March on Washington, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, killing four young African-American girls. The bombing, perpetrated by a white supremacist, became a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement and sparked the outrage that led to the 1964
Read moreStan Pickthall IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger has appointed Stan Pickthall as the new Chief of Staff. An IAM member for almost 31 years, Stan Pickthall previously served as the Directing Business Representative of District Lodge 250 in Vancouver. He became a Business Representative in 1994 and has been the Directing Business Representative since 2005. “Stan
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